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Yup, i’m still alive ! The end of year (and the beginning too, actually) is always kinda busy for me (with all the birthdays, the new year and christmas cards…) and this year, the wedding didn’t help.

But it was great. Everything went perfectly.

So, I still have a few card to finish for the new year wishes, but I’m waiting until I’ve finished them all to post them.

But, like every beginning of the year, I’m back with the birthdaycard for my Batman’s fan friend.

This year, I’m into stitched cards, so most of my card will be stitched, and so is the Batman card. I had to make it in a hurry before going to the birthday party because I had a lot of trouble finding the idea. I finally used a scene from the opening of the old 80’s cartoon.

Not a lot of specific material here. The « Joyeux anniversaire » sticker is from Cultura, and the half beads are from Action

Just realised I hadn’t given the winner of the contest yet, so here it is: the winner is Sandy !

Same as last year, we’ve celebrated my friend fan of star wars’s birthday. So I made him a quite simple card, inspired by one of the beloved character of the movies: C-3PO. I’ve also made a tag (in which we’ve put a bit a money) for which I used the Sith Empire colors and symbol (good guys are not the only ones to count!)

The cutting has been done by my Silhouette. I had to make the cutting file for C-3PO myself, and for the tag I used a already existing file in which I added the Sith Empire symbol.

I used metallized gold paper for C-3PO, and a fake metal bronze paper for the eyes.

For the tag, I used a stencil brush and black ink to color the edges, and for the sith symbol I used red tracing paper.

My sister-in-law recently discovered that she’s preganant. Most of us heard about it by her or by her partner, but she asked me to do two card to announce it to her sister and her cousin. Since we didn’t know back then if it was going to be a boy or a girl (we’re still not 100% sure), I’ve used neutral colors.

I used a digistamp from Bird’s Cards that I find absolutely lovely, and I used my pro-marker to color it. I used a needle to pierce the stamp where there was stitches, to make it a bit more realistic. The cards are quite simple, without too many stuff on it, but I really liked making them. Birth is theme I really love but I don’t have much opportunity to work with it.

There’s not a lot of specific material here, the half-beads are from a brand called Artwork. The cuts have been done by my Silhouette and the stamp « Une nouvelle source de bonheur » (which mean: » A new source of happiness ») is from Aladdine and I’ve embossed it with Artemio’s Silver Pearl powder. The base paper (the iridescent one) come from Zeeman.

BTW, I’m extending the contest duration till the end of december.

A little hint for the answer: We’ve invited 83 person in total. So, knowing that, you can probably guess the amount of announcement cards I had to do 😉

I’ve worked the best I can to hide privates informations, but the rendering is not really flawless lol… But hey, that should do it.

I used our wedding colors: white, cream and turquoise, and managed to get a little geeky touch in the text without overdoing it (you know, so it doesn’t become, well… « too much »). Computers always had a big space in our live so it just had to be there somewhere.

The front of the announcement card have been made using Tiny Hearts Lace Edged twice, and the « You’re Invited » is from the Mix & Max sentiment category of Bird’s Cards.

For the fonts, I used Dragon is Coming for the internal text, Jellyka Western Princess for the numbers. For the Google page and the answer card, I used Delius Swash Caps. And the inside of the search bars are written in Tahoma.

If you want a translation of the texts, here is what it says:

First page:

Two mouses and a few clics were enought for them to met. Since then, they’ve never disconnected.

Charles-Antoine and Julie

Have decided to keep travelling by getting married

Tuesday, the 22nd of December 2015 at [hour of the wedding + where to go]

Then, click on the occasion and join them !

A double click will bring you to [The place of the party]

to share their happiness

around a meal and a dancing party

Please answer before the 10th of November

[Phone numbers]

Second page:

If you want to « spoil » us

We don’t have green fingers, so we won’t do well with flowers…

… But we do hope to have a lucky hand with the few scratch cards that we will get instead of flowers

After 6 years of common life, our home is already well furnished… However, if you want to help us improve it, a box will be available.

Third Page:

It’s the menu, and I have noo idea how to translate it, sorry! Again, I asked to answer before the 10th of november and I remind my guest that the dress-code is to have a little bit of turquoise on them!

Fourth page:

Where are we going?

[adresses]

Where can we gave our answer?

[adresses, mail adresses and phone numbers]

And for the answer card it’s basically a choice between the fish menu, the chicken menu and the fact of not being there, with the name of the guests.

The base of the card came from ActionThe splatters have been made with an Izink spray and Izink blue « Volubilis » inkThe tracing paper is just a random tracing paper (might be from the trademark Canson but I’m not sure since I’ve stocked two type of tracing paper in my Canson’s folder)The « whatever this is » square that you can barely see on the picture (seriously, I have NO idea what I’m supposed to call this), the black square, silver square, the plain blue ribbon and the white tag are from Zeeman (Sponsored by Zeeman, me? Nope, why do you ask?)The brad’s from Artemio (the « Brésil » pack if I remember correctly)And the blue iridescent ribbon I don’t remember. Probably a regular shop but I have it since 4 year (it’s my « birthday gift » ribbon) so I’m not sure at all.
And the Happy Birthday was writing by… me ^^’